Do Not Search For Domains Names Using Network Solutions
October 28th, 2008 | by Conrad Walton |They will grab any name you search for. I’ve had a client go look for names for a new site we were building. They had some ideas and wanted to check them out. 2 days later, they came back and said that the one they wanted was available, but was now taken.
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I asked her where she looked for them and she told me she used Network Solutions to search. As I checked into it, I found that Network Solutions had registered the name and would gladly give us the registration IF we registered with them.
That means that we had to pay $36 a year to register instead of $8 at GoDaddy, who we wanted to use. It cost us $28 more just because she used Network Solutions to search for available domain names.
In the past, I used a great small service for registration. They were great until they quit responding to emails and their help desk. I’ll tell that horror story in another post, but they did have a nice, easy to use “whois”, the tool you can use to look up domain name registrations. There’s no captcha. No advertising. There’s just the form.
If you want to look up domain names, use this WHOIS form.
